North x Northwest - Chapter 66.5 RECAP

Volume 2 Chapter 66.5 RECAP

Hi guys!

As promised, we wrote a recap for the past two volumes. We hope it helps to refresh your memories before we dive into volume 3.

As it’s the first time making one, let us know what you think about it; is it helpful or completely unnecessary? Do you miss some information or do you have tips to improve? Let us know in the comments! Also feel free to let us know if any part of the story was unclear to you or if you have your own theories about the story! We love to hear those!

Maybe it’s funny to mention again, but only one of us has read the whole story through bad quality MLT’s so there are a lot of mysteries to us too! 🙂

For people who haven’t seen this one yet, we have a little surprise at the bottom of the chapter!

Happy reading and see you Friday!

Love,

Pru and Formidable

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Vol. 1

In volume 1 we get acquainted with the main characters of this story. Liloa Obernyu, Cesar Lemoine and Edgar Retiro. Liloa is a runaway noble lady, disguised as the famous pirate captain Lil Schweiz. Lil’s cross-dressing is believable because she’s in possession of an ancient relic with the power of changing one’s appearence. Therefore, Lil isn’t merely dressing up as a man, but to others she is completely transformed into one. Cesar is her right-hand-man and acts as the navigator on the Bell Rock. The Bell Rock is their pirate ship and part of the Southern League of Pirates. After one of their voyages, they’re met with the news about Navy Admiral, Edgar Retiro, making his way to the South. Edgar is infamous for the brutal annihilation of the Western pirates with his Mondovi fleet.

As a means to get more information on this matter, Lil transforms back into a woman and hits the streets. Unbeknownst to her, she meets the Admiral, who is disguised as the sailor named Ed. Even though Ed was delighted to see her, their first meeting wasn’t on good terms and they ended up having a small scuffle. After spending some time together, they met again in the Count’s house, where Lil and her crew snuck in dressed as prostitutes to steal more information. Before their escape Cesar and Ed fight, this is when Cesar recognizes Ed as the Admiral and asks him to meet. From this Cesar learns that Ed is here on a request of the Duke of Mireille to bring Liloa back. Not long after this Ed puts all the pieces together and discovers that Liloa and captain Lil Schweiz are the same people. After this discovery, Ed threatens Cesar and demands to be allowed on the Bell Rock. This leads to Ed joining the ship’s crew as a doctor.

Some quick important trivia:

– Lil and Cesar are in a relationship.

– The necklace Lil wears is a family heirloom from the Duke of Mireille.

– Lil and Ed are both from the Northern continent.

– All three main characters were students of the Lebrun military academy.

– Admiral Retiro has a bad relationship/reputation with the emperor and the nobility.

– Cesar is a former navy captain.

– The Garni merchant ships that trade in slaves belongs to Duke Mireille.

– Lil suffers from nightmares.

– Lil is extremely wary of Ed but doesn’t know he’s the Admiral. She thinks he’s a spy for the fleet.

– Between the mainland and the northern continent lies the Monferrand Strait, a deadly sea only crossable by a Retiro descendant.

– Ed is a legit doctor with a degree.

– Ed travelled alone to Amiaeng, but his fleet lay waiting.

– Even though Cesar knows the identity of Ed, he chooses to keep it a secret for Lil. It still is unclear as to why, so this is a bit of speculation from our side. But we think it’s a combination of keeping Lil’s piece of mind and being in control over Lil and the situation.

– Ed may have traveled to the South by request of the duke, he isn’t planning on following the duke’s will.

Characters in this volume:

Main:

Lil Schweiz/Liloa Obernyu;
– Pirate captain and the sea’s Black Whale

Cesar Lemoine;
– Retired navy captain and navigator

Edgar Eichendorff Retiro;
– Admiral, doctor Ed and Marquess of Roahn

Others:

Phillip ll                               Emperor

René Mireille                     Duke

Venua Obernyu                               Lil’s brother

George Darlan                  Count of Amiaeng

The Bell Rock crew:

Alain (Boatswain), Jericho (First mate), Courant (Cabin boy), Marenzio (Gunner) and Joe

Navy:

Commodore Viktor Sagastar and Captain Julbert Long;
– Western Navy, Mondovi fleet

First Sergeant Sorola and Lieutenant Eme;
– Southern Navy, Legardon fleet

Places:

Sesbron                ;
– The capital, located on the mainland.

Amiaeng;
– Infamous pirate hideout in the South.

Mondovi Peninsula;
– Ed’s home and base of the Western Navy.

Ingres sea;                         Sea in the South

Aengle sea;                        Sea in the West

Anatole sea;                      Sea in the West

Monferrand strait;          Sea in the North

Others:

The Visha and the Grignard;
– Ships in the Mondovi fleet

Lebrun;
– Military academy in Sesbron

Erimyan;
– Tree. Chewing the leaves prevents rotting gums. Necessary for long voyages.

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Vol. 2

Volume 2 starts with the arrival of the Bell Rock in Marchand, base of the Southern Navy. After Ed managed to contact his fleet, he met up with a disguised Lil on the market and they became targets for the Western pirates. Their fight leads to the kidnapping of Ed and Lil, and the start of the western pirate arc. On the day of their execution, they manage to escape by jumping into the water, but not before Lil loses her necklace to one of the pirates.

The underwater scene that follows, ‘the kiss’, is a big turning point for Ed’s feelings toward Lil as he starts to see her as more than just a woman. Back on the ship, they split up, Lil goes searching for her necklace, whereas Ed makes his way to the captain’s cabin for his sword. Ed felt the need to change their plans when Lil’s location was about to be exposed and he ended up killing the captain and claiming control over the ship. This was received with mixed reactions from the crew and it was the start of a battle on board. Lil took this opportunity and tried to make her escape, where Ed eventually joined. Their plan failed and they were discovered.

Not much later was the arrival and bombing by the Bell Rock, Cesar managed to lead the ship to their location by eavesdropping on a conversation between naval sergeants. This led to a full-out battle between the two ships. When Lil, Ed and Cesar made their way through the mess, Lil found the guy that stole her necklace and went after him. She managed to get her necklace back, but Ed got shot in the process. With the guidance of Ed, it was up to Lil and Cesar to treat Ed’s wound, in the hope to save his life. This massive battle took a huge hit on the Bell Rock crew and they were forced to sail to Panichi, the base of the League.

In the meantime, we got a little peak at Cesar’s backstory. Even though they grew up with a deranged and abusive father, Cesar and his older brother Carl never stopped supporting each other. We also see that it wasn’t love at first sight for Cesar when he met Liloa and for a long time their relationship was purely platonic. As a conservative thinker, Liloa’s free spirit left a big impression on Cesar. That’s also why he was excited to meet her again when that opportunity occurred some years later. At that time, Liloa was engaged and in an abusive relationship with the Duke of Mireille. After seeing her doll-like state a few times, Cesar made the choice to ‘save’ her from the Duke.

When we go back to the main story, Ed wakes up from his coma and thinks he’s being abandoned on an island. After some fuss, it’s made clear that they were stuck on this island due to the lack of crew. Cesar takes this opportunity to talk about his ideas for the future where they leave the pirate life behind and in the current state of the sea and the ship, Lil can’t refute him. Even though she never saw this as a phase, but as her way of life.

With the help of a flashback, we learn a bit about Liloa’s past with her brother; which started as a typical sibling relationship, but ended in a mentally abusive one, whereas her brother found it necessary to teach Liloa the virtues of a woman, which she in his opinion lacks. This is also the part in the story where we get an explanation about Lil’s nightmares/hallucinations; since she was little she suffers from the illusion that Mortu, aka the god of death, haunts her. And we finally read Lil’s thoughts about her relationship with Cesar. She compares it to a princess unwillingly saved by a brave knight and afterwards feels obligated to love this knight. In other words, she does care a lot about Cesar, but it isn’t love that she feels.

This volume ends with an interesting conversation between Lil, Ed and a new character; Anunchio, who manages Panichi. Ed learns the real purpose of the League; saving and providing shelter for the slaves. Lil and Ed have a bonding moment over the story of the Mother of All Things and the origin of the central continent. Ed also takes the chance to thank Lil for meeting a person like her, saying he’s been wanting to say it to her for a long time.

Some quick important trivia:

– Cesar discovers that Ed is starting to develop feelings for Lil.

– Lil and Cesar contemplated killing Ed when he was in a coma. In the end they reasoned they couldn’t just kill someone like that when he saved Lil’s life.

– Lil cares a lot about the crew and the ship, whereas Cesar doesn’t. Cesar’s first priority is Lil’s safety and not that of the sailors.

– Rewards of the Bell Rock are used as funds for the island of Panichi.

– The League’s standpoint about the upcoming war is to lay low and don’t engage first.

– Marchand was seized by the Navy. This battle ended in a massacre and almost all the native inhabitants were either murdered or enslaved as an example for other islands.

New characters in this volume:

Jarles Anunchio;
– Retired pirate captain, manager of Panichi and part of the League.

Carl Lemoine;
– Cesar’s brother. Other family members; Maribella, Ellen and Amelia (sister-in-law and nieces).

Places:

Marchand;
– Base of the Southern Navy, basically the capital of the South.

Panichi;
– Base of the Southern pirates.

Other:

Koud Bahn;

–  Lil’s former horse.

Blue powder;
– Anesthetic drugs used by the western pirates.

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Art:

We found this incredible (fan?)art on Pinterest a couple of months ago. It was posted by an account that has dozens of mood boards filled with different webtoons. So, we concluded that this account isn’t the artist behind this art.

We would love to give credits to the original artist. But the information trail ended on Pinterest and we’re unable to find any information about the artist or the source of the picture.

But look at Ed and Cesar, aren’t they handsome? Whoever made this really succeeded in portraying the characters the way they are written. The easy going Ed and the stoic Cesar.

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